Combination screen and storm door.



G. BIN GER.

COMBINATION SCREEN AND STORM DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15, 1009.

950,654 Patented Mar. 1,1910.

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COMBINATION SCREEN AND STORM DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 1, 1910.

Application filed April 15, 1909. Serial No. 490,121.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, CHARLES BINGER, citizen of the United States,residing at Saginaw, Michigan, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Combination Screen and Storm Doors, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention is designed to render unnecessary the use of screen doorsonly in the summer time, by providing means to transform the screen doorinto a storm door in the fall or winter.

I carry out my invention in a very simple manner by utilizing a screendoor of any preferred construction, though preferably made heavier thanthe usual construction by reason of the fact that it will be more orless permanent, combining therewith a heavy curtain preferably ofwaterproof material, which is supported on a roller, preferably a springroller, so as to be out of the way during the good weather, butconveniently placed so as to be utilized in stormy weather. This stormcurtain is held securely in place by attaching means, as will be morefully hereinafter particularly explained.

In the accompanying drawing, I have shown the invention in Figure 1 in afront view, and Fig. 2 shows a detail of one of the holding devices.

The screen door, of ordinary or improved construction, is represented atA. A roller Z) is mounted in brackets c, secured to the upper face ofthe door, and this roller preferably of the spring type. Secured to thisroller is a curtain (Z, which I prefer to make of waterproof material,or material which has a Waterproof face. The curtain, when not needed iskept upon its roller, but when it is required in rainy or stormy weatherthe curtain is unrolled and is of sufiicient length to extend to thebottom of the door. As is Well known, curtains de pending upon ordinarymeans to hold them in place, as by a simple form of hook or 1 button,cannot be held bottom,

securely during wind storms and in case of rain or snow the elementswould drive in through the unprotected edges. My invention aims toprevent this difliculty heretofore experienced, and I overcome it byproviding fastening means of a more permanent character. These consistof two side strips 0 and a bottom strip f. These strips are supported onspring hinges g, of any ordinary or improved construction, these hingeshaving the effect to force the strips tightly against the exposed edgesof the curtain along the sides and and thus prevent the wind fromdisplacing the curtain or the elements from driving under its edges. Thecurtain itself may contain a section of mica, as shown at h so as toallow light to pass through.

It will be evident that the clamps may be thrown back when it is desiredto roll the curtain up, and thus I provide a device which is at any timeready for use as a screen door or thoroughly protected as a storm door.

lVhat I claim is:

In combination with a door having a permanent screen section, a stormcurtain on the outer face of the door, a spring roller supporting theupper end thereof and means for clamping the curtain substantiallythroughout its exposed edges when extended, comprising independent sideand bottom strips connected to the door by spring hinges and adapted tobear upon the edges of the curtain, the strips being so arranged inrelation to each other as to practically constitute a frame for thestorm curtain when ex tended.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES BINGER.

Witnesses:

SIMON G. KoRPKn, ANDREW J. LYND.

